MAYNARD, Richard (John)

UK-born writer, resident in Australia, whose The Coconut Book (1985) is of some interest. The Quiet Place (1988; vt The Return 1988 US) rather overcomplicatedly describes the return to Earth of a group of astronauts long years after the planet has mysteriously reverted to savagery. There is some SEX between the descending males and the females who need them.

John — /jon/, n. 1. the apostle John, believed to be the author of the fourth Gospel, three Epistles, and the book of Revelation. 2. See John the Baptist. 3. (John Lackland) 1167? 1216, king of England 1199 1216; signer of the Magna Carta 1215 (son of… … Universalium